Date :
02/09/2014
Showing a different side to the city, Twitter has been awash with this great video by the New York Times featuring 36 hours in Glasgow.
The video highlights all the usual tourist attractions, as well as a few local secrets. It features commentary and insights by some of the city’s leisure and hospitality leaders.
It takes the viewer on a journey which focuses on some of the city’s top places for eating, shopping, music, and going out.
Beginning with a brief explanation of the city’s variable micro-climate, where one commentator explains that it ‘is the only city where you would go out with a Hawaiian shirt and a brollie’, and explains what Glaswegian’s describe as ‘tapps aff’ weather (sunshine!).
The video shrugs off Glasgow’s stereotype of deep fried Mars bar suppers and profiles eateries such as the Crabshakk, who boast of their high quality produce, whilst Coffee, Chocolate and Tea speak of the importance of their artisan produce. No16 describes its menu as bursting with exciting local flavours.
The shopping section skips over the designer and high street stores and focuses on Starry Starry Night, a vintage fashion store, and Timorous Beasties, who describe themselves as ‘textile designers for hire’.
Already well known for its live music scene, this video focuses on the unique and delightful charm found in the pleasures of vinyl in the city; profiling Monorail as a wonderful spot to find tracks new and old.
The Going Out section of the video covers everything form the Grosvenor Cinema and The Lane bar to the 650 whiskies of the city’s Pot Still, which is owned by three generations of the same family. It ends by highlighting that iconic Glasgow nightclub - The Sub Club. Still going strong after 27 years, the two long standing residents (of 20 years!) claim the atmosphere is more akin to DJing to friends in their own homes.
Finally, one commentator sums up Glasgow up as a ‘cultural hotbed but it hasn’t lost its gritty underbelly’.
Well let’s hope that it attracts plenty of New Yorkers to the city. To find out more about the American tourism market visit our customer insights page.